Europe's supermarket shelves are packed with brands billing their plastic packaging as sustainable, but often only a fraction of the materials are truly recovered from waste, with the rest made from petroleum. Brands using plastic packaging from Kraft's Heinz Beanz to Mondelez's Philadelphia use materials made by the plastic manufacturing arm of the oil company Saudi Aramco. The Saudi state-owned holding opposes production cuts under the UN plastic treaty and is the world's largest corporate greenhouse-gas emitter (over 70m tonnes up to 2023).
The C-27J Spartan has long been an important military craft, and now it has earned its first civilian customer: Saudi Aramco. At the 2025 Paris Air Show, the petroleum and natural gas company became the first non-military buyer of the exceptional aircraft. Under Aramco's aviation branch (Mukamalah Aviation), a deal was signed for two Next Generation C-27Js. The purpose of the acquisition involves a wide range of planned missions.